Questions on Sprays

[S-Gray]

Hmm, i have created a Clan Spray using Paint Shop Pro and Wally.

But, no matter what format i save the Image as in PSP (Bitmap, JPeg, etc) it always becomes Blurry in the CounterStrike Game.

I set the Size to 192*80 (i think its 80 anyway?) because it looks like a nice size.

So all i need to know is how to make the Picture, Clear as Water.

Also, when i have fixed that minor glitch, i would like to Zip it and send it to all my Clan People. But what file(s) do i need?

I know you need the Pdecal.WAD, but is there anything else that you need?
Also.. lol what directory does it have to be in?

Thanks.....

 

[ShockingAlberto]

That post is very contradictory, but i shall explain clearly the main steps to making a logo, so just don't get annoyed if it seems patronising, as your post is difficult.

Custom logos come from the 'pldecal.wad' file, which is located in every game dir. This is to say your HLDM logo is in valve/ and your CS logo is in cstrike/ .

There are 2, or maybe 3 ways to create the logo. One, use a BMP image and the programs 'makels' and 'qlumpy'. This is the most complicated way, as you simply run them with the command line/batch file.
Next you can use a GUI program called 'Halflife Logo Creator'. There are several versions of this, but you simply give it a BMP file, and you can then resize your image in the app, and then export it directly to your mod dir.
Then there's using wally, but i wouldn't know anything about that.

Recent versions of HLC also give you the option to modify the image, i only have an older version, but it works fine.

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[S-Gray]

Yeah i have HLC anyway, but i find Wally much much easier, i tried HLC and give mehself a headache tryin to figure it out, whereas Wally was 3 Clicks and your Spray is complete.

But i wanna know why the BMP/JPG Image is so Horrid looking in the game (Jagged, Discoloured Blurry), and how to fix it.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Make the size/aspect ratio similar to one of the HL ones when you make it, this way it won't get distorted by the program.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

This could be wrong but don't the dimensions have to be divisible by 64? i.e. the 192 is fine but the 80 will be all wrong.

try changing that to 128. It may just work.

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[old.kennyken]

try looking here http://www.counterspray.com or http://csspy.cscentral.co they have all the tuition u need for making sprays and where to put them ect ect

 

[old.[CARP]Killcrazy]

Originally posted by Super_Gray

But, no matter what format i save the Image as in PSP (Bitmap, JPeg, etc) it always becomes Blurry in the CounterStrike Game.

well it does blur it a fair bit cos it has to be super-compressed (make the file size extremely small) as it has to be uploaded to the server during game play and then distributed to every client on the server without any deterioration of ping.

 

[Skyler]

the image always goes blurry and is always stretched/larger than you expect it to be, this is because of something in the hl engine that causes it to do it. i cant be bothered to try and explain so to put it simply, all sprays are bigger than they are in psp or whatever, they all get stretched and loose quality....